“Remix-Ed is an unconference taking place at McGill University in Montreal, QC, on Saturday, November 28, 2015. It is a free event open to teachers, pre-service teachers, administrators, education professionals, and anyone who is interested in education. This event is free and open to everyone!” Free breakfast, lunch and babysitting [...]

Many of you may be familiar with edWeb's free seminars. If not, it's easy to register for them and participate. Below you will find upcoming webinars that are scheduled for next week and are of interest to librarians and library personnel. edWeb webinars provide free personalized PD. They offer a [...]

Last week Anita Brooks Kirkland gave a presentation at the 83rd ABQLA Annual Conference (2015) on "Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in Canada". Below is a link to her blog post where she talks about not only what she presented at the conference, but also about [...]

Hello, Here is the list of all the resources that were presented at the 2015 MELS Libary Symposium. Link to the Digital Badges for the Symposium which can still be earned. Due to the issues with the wifi at the hotel, we have left the digital badges open for people to [...]

The following was written by Douglas Clarke, a retired principal with the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board who now works on the Reading in Mind project at the MELS. Mr. Clarke was part of a panel of three principals at the Library Symposium who spoke about their insights and experiences with school [...]

On March 16th and March 17th, school library personnel from across Quebec got together for the annual MELS Library Symposium. This year's theme was Dream, Plan, Create. Keynote speaker Joanne de Groot got us thinking about the exciting possibilities that the Canadian Library Association standards can ignite right here in [...]

Hello, This is to inform you that the online registration for the 2015 MELS Library Symposium is now open. Once library personnel have received permission from their individual supervisors, they can register themselves at http://lceeq.ca/ Everyone needs to register themselves; if anyone try to register another person, they will actually [...]

Hello, Here is the list of all the links from the presentations at the 2014 MELS Library Symposium on 17 March. Carol Koechlin’s main keynote: https://sites.google.com/site/melslearningcommons/ What does it cost? https://sites.google.com/site/melslearningcommons/building-physical-learning-spaces/so-how-do-we-fix-the-problem/what-does-it-cost Built a Collaborative Story Google Spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap3yb3UOI0YcdGxGSl9BX0VQZzlZVmpuRFhrMVNnMnc#gid=0 Build Collaborative Questions https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap3yb3UOI0YcdFBlS1p6Mlh6MjMxS0V6R1lwX2I0eXc#gid=0 Direct link to the Elementary Panel Google Doc [...]